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#silentSunday
Cormorant. July 2023

Corruption and authoritarianism aren't distinct problems,
they're two sides of the same coin.
Kleptocracy and autocracy go hand in hand, each dependent on the other to sustain itself.
https://bsky.app/profile/zacheverson.com/post/3mjrllytb4w2a

Zach Everson (@zacheverson.com)
Good morning! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day! https://media.tenor.com/kIGsr6CZvGUAAAAC/trump-wink-stage.gif?hh=498&ww=498

So I’m using Facebook marketplace occasionally to look for interesting local stuff (e.g. retrocomputing), and this means I occasionally see the main timeline Facebook serves up for me.
It’s literally ONLY right-wing shit like anti-vaxx stuff, racism about brown people and videos with real or simulated violence.
To call it a cesspit would be unfair to actual cesspits.
How are we as society not making an end to this garbage?

A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the "black box" that holds the formulas within most AI models (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.
For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain.

Progressive Democrat Analilia Mejia won a New Jersey special election for the US House on Thursday,
defeating Republican Joe Hathaway on a message of standing up to Donald Trump.
Mejia, a former head of the Working Families Alliance who had support from the senator Bernie Sanders,
will fill the seat previously held by the Democratic governor Mikie Sherrill and serve until January.
Her victory is a win for progressives
and means Democrats hold on to the 11th dist…

POL-DEL: Landkreis Wesermarsch: Unfall zwischen Kraftomnibus und Pkw in Berne Delmenhorst (ots) - Am Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2026, gegen 06:50 Uhr, kam es auf der Deichstraße in Berne zu einem Verkehrsunfall zwischen zwei Fahrzeugen, wonach ein Fahrzeug nicht mehr fahrbereit war. Ein 56-jähriger Elsflether musste in seinem ... https://www.

Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez wins District 60 seat, replacing Chad Brown (Quinn Coffman/The Advocate)
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/chasity-verret-martinez-wins-election/article_4215bf58-3e04-4797-bdf5-067053533090.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p1#a260208p1

I like to think that when someone receives a letter from me in an official capacity, they imagine me composing it bathed in diffused light from antique reading lamps while sitting in a cocoon of leather, brass, and aged hardwood. It's a better picture than reality: me balanced in a wonky chair at a crumbling second-hand desk in a poorly climate controlled, institutionally painted cinder block office while squinting under the harsh fluorescent ceiling lights my university actually provide…

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court emergency rulings
Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply criticized the Supreme Court on Monday
for being quick to issue rulings that have temporarily allowed some of Donald Trump’s controversial policies to stand
while legal challenges against them play out in the courts.

The justices have signed off on the administration’s ban on transgender soldiers in the military,
the firing of independent agenc…

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court emergency rulings
During a public forum, Jackson and conservative Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh offered differing views of President Trump’s wins before the high court.